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Amusement Parks, Babies,

and Brilliant Plans

Chapter One

"101 Amusement Parks"

"I'm just saying. It isn't fair! We've been to like 101 amusements parks and haven't seen a single Shrek." Jamie whined from the backseat of the rented van. The Xavier students had abandoned the plane in Florida when Laura thought of the tracking device in the controls. Since then they had been driving a van rented with Logan's credit card.

If someone had thought of Logan tracing their movements by his credit card, they hadn't mentioned it. Instead they all suppressed a groan at Jamie's on going complaint. "You guys just don't get it! Everyone else got to see their hero." Jamie continued.

"Jamie." Rahne finally broke. "We have not been to 101, we've been to three, and where the rest of us saw our favorites was in Florida at Disney!"

"I know but-"

"Shrek. Is. Not. Disney." Julian ground out.

"He's not? But he's a cartoon." Jamie replied, everyone else groaned. They had already had this exact same conversation six times.

With that, Julian and Angelo suddenly remembered that they need the restroom, while Hope pretended to sleep, leaving Laura and Rahne to deal with Jamie. After a silent but fierce paper-rock-scissors completion, Laura sighed; Rahne happily put in her ear buds and turned up the music as loud as she dared.

After a few more moments of silence Jamie began again. Laura tried to be patient, she did, but as Rogue could attest Jamie…was annoying. Finally, when Laura realized that no one was going to help her anytime soon, she silently cursed her boyfriend and turned to Jamie.

"Look. It's like this. There are Disney cartoons, and then there are every. Other. Cartoon. On. The. Planet!" Laura said. "Shrek is the second group."

"Oh…" Jamie replied."…What about SpongeBob?"

Laura screamed as she rushed from the car. She then rushed across the parking lot to the payphone. Probably the sole remaining payphone in North America, and began to dial.

Julian runs at her and tackles his angry girlfriend just as Logan barks out a hello.

"What're you doing?! Do you want to die?" Julian whispers as Logan can still be heard over the line.

_Hello?Hello? This better not be a salesman! If this is a salesman I will hunt you down and end you…and I'll take 6._

Before they can respond, a scuffle can be heard over the line before Remy came on the line.

_I'm sorry, but we are not interested_ Remy said before the scuffling sound returned. Followed by Remy muffled but clearly stating "No. Bad Logan. No Shopping." Before the call was cut off.

The teens stared at the phone with a mixture of horror and amusement, before they climb to their feet and slowly return to the van. In their absence Angelo had returned to the van, and Hope was no longer pretending to sleep, instead she and Angelo were watching on as Rahne attempted to choke Jamie, who had multiplied, and continued to prattle on about Sponge Bob.

"Oh for the love of- Rahne cut it out, Jamie pull yourself together, Angelo, Hope just get in! You just made me the voice of reason! Me! Do you know how crazy that is? I haven't even had ant caffeine in 48 hours! I'm running on fumes here." Julian stated, while shoving the others into the van.

A few minutes of tense silence later, Jamie sniffled and said "I still wanna see Shrek…and SpongeBob."

Rahne screamed and attempted to shove Jamie out of the closed window, while Hope screamed and Angelo egged Rahne on. Laura continued to read her book by flashlight, and Julian's eye twitched. It was a familiar eye twitch; many had seen the exact same muscle spasm on Remy's eye, frequently while dealing with Julian. No one noticed it on Julian though, they were all too busy.

Julian's eye continued to twitch, his hands gripped the wheel, her ground his teeth in frustration. Then Rahne attempted to roll down the window. "That. Is. It. Everyone will sit still and be quiet, no one will make another peep, or I swear by all that is holy, I will turn this van around!" Julian yelled.

Everything descended into silence, and Julian began to relax, when suddenly, and quietly at first, a soft 'peep' could be heard from the back. Julian stiffened, but attempted to ignore it. Soon though it was joined by a second, then third, now louder peep. Julian was counting to ten, just as they always say to do, when a peep came from the passenger seat…occupied by Laura.

Growling, Julian pulled out his cell phone, as he slammed on the breaks and hit the speed dial for Logan. When Logan answered Julian yelled into the phone their location, as Laura attempted to wrestle the phone from him and Remy yelled at Logan not to buy anything.

Finally, Logan broke into the yelling to state calmly. "We know. We're about ten minutes behind you, just stay there."

Julian then hung up the phone, and after removing the keys and shoving them in his pocket, he leaned back and crossed his arms.

"What was that about?" Angelo asked.

"Vacation's over." Julian stated.

They all then sat in silence as they awaited their surely horrifying fate.

Another van pulled up behind them a few minutes later, and Remy climbed out of the passenger side, Logan sat hunched and angry behind the wheel. There was no evidence of anyone else in the van. This was bad. Both Jamie and Rahne knew immediately how bad this was. Because Emma, Rogue, and surprisingly John and Wade, were the ones you wanted to be caught by. Their punishments were usually far more reasonable. Without those four… they were probably looking at grounding for the rest of the year…and probably the danger room too.

Julian dug furiously in his pocket, and had just managed to get a hold of his keys, when Remy yanked open the door and snatched them from his hand. Then in an alarmingly calm voice, Remy stated. "Julian, Laura, get to the other van. You have thirty seconds. And don't even think about running or I will know."

Julian gulped (he had been thinking about running) and nodded as he and Laura climbed from the van and slowly made their way to Logan's.

"I hope you two had fun." Logan stated as they buckled their seatbelts. "Because you will not be going anywhere for a very very long time."

"What if-?" Laura began.

"Not even to save the world." Logan replied.

Frowning, Julian slouched into the backseat. It was going to be a very long trip home.